1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file containing a single field on every row. What I need is to append one on to the end of another, e.g. The input file looks like this: nnnnn mmmmmm nnnnn mmmmmm I need it to look like this: nnnnn mmmmmm nnnnn mmmmmm Any ideas would be much appreciated,... (8 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a way to combine two lines onto a single line...append the following line onto the previous line? I have the following file that contains some blank lines and some lines I would like to append to the previous line... current file: checking dsk c19t2d6 checking dsk c19t2d7 ... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I have 2 files A and B . I want to compare the 3rd line of file A and B . (I dont want to compare the 2 files, using diff or cmp). I just want to know whether 3rd line of A matches the 3 rd line of B. Can anybody share their knowledge on the same? Thanks , Vijaya (12 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have 2 files file1 ******** 01-05-09|java.xls| 02-05-08|c.txt| 08-01-09|perl.txt| 01-01-09|oracle.txt| ******** file2 ******** 01-02-09|windows.xls| 02-05-08|c.txt| 01-05-09|java.xls| 08-02-09|perl.txt| 01-01-09|oracle.txt| ******** (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I am writting file comparison Utility and I have encountered such a senario where there are 2 files such as follows- 1#!/usr/local/bin/python 2 import gsd.scripts.admin.control.gsdPageEscalate 3.gsd.scripts.admin.control.gsdPageEscalate.main() 1 #!/usr/local/bin/python... (10 Replies)

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Hello all, I always found help for my problems using the search option, but this time my request is too specific. I have two files that I want to compare. File1 is the index and File2 contains the data: File1: chr1 protein_coding exon 500 600 . + . gene_id "20532";... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Please help me with this problem if you have a solution. I have two files: <file1> : In each line, first word is an Id and then other words that belong to this Id piMN-1 abc pqr xyz py12 niLM y12 FY4 pqs fiRLym F12 kite red <file2> : same as file1, but can have extra lds... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I'm having a little difficulty in writing a shell script for a few simple tasks. First I have two files "file1.txt" and "file2.txt" and I want to read and compare the last line of each file. The files look like this. File1.txt File2.txt After comparing the two lines I would... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to compare 2 files, locus_file.txt is a very large file and attr.txt is a small file. I want to match the first 2 columns of the first file to the second column of attr.txt and print the attributes together. locus_file.txt:large file LOC_Os02g47020, LOC_Os03g57840,0.88725114... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I have a large csv file where there are four types of rows I need to merge into one row per person, where there is a column for each possible code / type of row, even if that code/row isn't there for that person. In the csv, a person may be listed from one to four times... (9 Replies)